Forget Corn, Remember Cabbage

1) Taking only three months growing time, one acre of cabbage will yield more edible vegetables than any other plant.

2) The English word cabbage comes from the french word, referring to head.

3) In 200 BC people believed in eating plenty of raw cabbage before a banquet in which one plans to drink deep.


4) President George H.W. Bush was known to dislike broccoli. In protest a powerful broccoli lobby sent several tons to the White House. It was donatedto a local food bank.


5) The cabbage family includes broccoli, kale, brussel sprouts, cauliflower and collards.

6) Albert "Cubby" Broccoli was the producer of James Bond films. His daughter Barbara Broccoli produced the Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig Bonds.

7) Awesome source of iron, vitamin C, fiber, calcium and potassium.

8) Egyptians advised starting with raw cabbage to keep sober

9) Cabbage Soup Diet I've never tried it. I do love borscht though.

10)Heirloom Cabbage Seeds onsale, on-line. Heirllom plants are important for diversity. The reason for the Potato Famine was that Ireland had a favourite potato and stopped growing all it's other kinds of potatoes. So when a disease hit that beloeved potato, they didn't have any other potatos that may have resisited the disease.

11)Good worts! good cabbage. Slender, I broke your head: what matter have you against me? Falstaff in Merry Wives of Windsor.

12) Cabbage has been cultivated from the wild for over 4000 years. It's likely homosapiens have been eating it even longer. Among natural healers, cabbage is believed to inhibit tumor growth, and prevent several cancers including colon, breast and ovary cancer.

13) I make a cauliflower salad just like a potato salad recipe but instead of potatoes, cabbage. Not fattening like potatoes! Tastes just as good...actually now potato salad tastes bland. I eat some member of the cabbage family, every day.